"Well that's a curious thing to keep in your sock."

My mom, dad, Courtney and I went to see the seventh installment of Harry Potter tonight. Oh baby. That was surely amazing and horrifing at the same time. It left out or changed things that I was mad about but I won't say because I don't want to spoil it for anyone. The whole reason I decided to write this post though was because as I was sitting there and watching *cough, cough* a certain, someone die at the end of the movie I thought "How amazing is it that the woman that wrote this can make someone want to cry over the death of a fictional character? How completely and totally awesome would you have to be to make someone cry at the end of the sixth book?" And, of course, I was thinking she must be rolling in the dough but I kind of decided to keep that to myself. But how cool is it that just regular people like you or you or even YOU could write a book and have it be so good that people get into fierce arguments about it or debate topics about it or have whole conventions devoted to it. I could talk on for HOURS about Harry Potter and all these little things in the books and speculate on whether or not he ever forgives Draco or whether or not him and the Dursley's ever hook up again. And none of this ever happened, not a single character is real. Yet people get all up in arms about this stuff. That just amazes me at how gifted with words you have to be to have that happen. Okay. I'm done now.